The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-18
THE BRIDEGROOM CAME NOT.
A Little Romance, with Abundan
Taars in South RrOOklvn

A Little Romance, with Abundant
Tears, in South Brooklyn.
From the Neu York Herald.
There is both mystery and romance in a
curious affair which agitates the gossips-
| male as we'll as female-in the neighborhood
| of Columbia street, South Brooklyn.
A good looking young lady, with blonde
| hair, blue eyes and rosy checks, called upon
Theodore Burck, the butcher, at No 1871
Columbia street, on Monday of last week,
and rented the second floor over the store.
She called herself Miss ONeill, and with a
modest blush told Mr. Burck that she was
to be married in few days, and that she
and her husband would go to housekeeping
there. She was a stranger in the neighhor-
| hood She paid a month rent in advance,
and appeared to haye well filled purse.
Next morning big wagon load of new
| furniture and carpets arrived at No. 1911 for
the new tenant. BY that night Miss O'Neill,
who hustled about merrily, singing Irish
airs meanwhile, had the second floor COM
fortably fitted up for housekeeping That
evening, wearing a spotless white apron
over neatly fitting dress, she was seen by
the Burck family preparing her supper and
humming cheerfully to herself.
PREPARING FOR THE WEDDING.
On Wednesday morning Miss O'Neill told
the Burcks, who took great interest in the
comely new tenant, that she was to be mar
ried at ) o'clock in the afternoon. During
the day n number Of her lady friends called
and assisted in busy preparations for the
expected festivities. Shortly before 5
several wedding guests arrived. Then came
a priest
But At 5 o'clock the bridegroom had not
come and the Burcks and other neighbors
began to wonder at the delay. Six o'clock
came, but still no bridegroom. Miss O'Neill
in her wedding dress, was seen to come down
to the front door several times and look anx-
iously up and down the street. Her face
was seen to betray more and more anxiety.
Seven o'clock came and passed, $780, 8
o'clock, and stil no word or sign of the
missing bridegroom BY this time the dis
appointed bride was weeping bitter tears OF
modification and despair, and her friends
were trying in vain TO console her. One by
one they left the house, and Miss O'Neill was
left alone with a friend, who remained all
night with her. She cried and sobbed Bit
terly all the night through
On Thursday the furniture of the little
house was returned to the dealer from whom
it had been purchased Joseph .Rubenstein,
of No. 50 Bowery, this city, and that night
the heart-broken young lady left the bleak
and desolate rooms. She forfeited her
months rent and the SIS she had paid on
the furniture
WHO WAS HEl
She told Mr.. Burch that she had paid out
$50 to prepare for the wedding, that she
had borne all the expenses herself, and that
there was nothing for the bridegroom to do
but TO come in and take possession. She re-
fused to tell who the recalcitrant lover was,
and said she would never disclose his iden-
tity, but that she would settle accounts with
him. From what she let fall it appears that
he was a young man in business in this city,
and from the determined way in which
Miss O'Neil spoke it was evident that she
went at once to hunt him up.
None of the persons who. came 70 see the
wedding were known in the neighborhood,
and it Is thought they came from New
York. The priest was not recognized by
any of the neighbors, It was not Father
Duffy, of ST. Agnes church, near by, nor
any Of the priests from st. Francis church.